The primary use case for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is auto-scaling, which is required for us and serves as one of our primary cases for use.
CloudGuard Network Security with Threat Prevention and SandBlast
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Strong Security with Great Integration and Support
What do you like best about the product?
I like Check Point CloudGuard Network Security's strong threat protection, which actively blocks attacks in real time, ensuring my cloud applications remain safe. The easy policy management feature allows me to update rules quickly and without confusion, streamlining the security management process. Additionally, I appreciate the clear dashboard that provides full visibility into network traffic and alerts, making troubleshooting swift and enhancing overall security. Furthermore, I'm impressed with how Check Point CloudGuard Network Security integrates effectively with cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, and it works well with my CI/CD pipelines. I find the support provided to be reliable, as well. Overall, its combination of robust security features and seamless integration with various tools makes it a highly valuable product for securing my cloud environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find the setup can be somewhat complex initially, which poses a challenge in understanding all the options available. Additionally, some advanced features require time to master. The dashboard, while clear, could benefit from faster loading times. Lastly, the integrations with a few third-party tools aren’t as smooth as I’d like, which can impede seamless usability across different systems.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Check Point CloudGuard Network Security to protect my cloud network. It prevents threats, manages security rules, reduces misconfigurations, and provides clear visibility into network activity, making cloud security simpler and more reliable.
Advanced Threat Prevention and Seamless Cloud Integration
What do you like best about the product?
What I appreciate most about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is its advanced threat prevention capabilities, which are highly effective at blocking sophisticated attacks such as zero-day exploits, ransomware, and malware. The platform provides unified and scalable cloud network security, featuring centralized management and automation that work seamlessly across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. This approach ensures consistent protection for network traffic and allows for straightforward integration with cloud-native tools, which helps to reduce operational complexity and supports a rapid response to emerging threats.
What do you dislike about the product?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security presents certain limitations, such as difficulties in configuration management that may result in misconfigurations and potential security gaps. Deploying and managing the solution effectively often demands considerable expertise, particularly within complex multi-cloud environments. Some users have noted that the interface is complicated and not especially intuitive, which contributes to a steep learning curve. Furthermore, the costs can be substantial, especially for larger deployments, and integration with some third-party tools can occasionally pose challenges.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security addresses cloud security challenges by offering advanced threat prevention, unified policy management, and automation throughout various cloud environments. Users benefit from reduced risks, streamlined security management, and scalable, consistent protection against sophisticated attacks, whether in hybrid or multi-cloud configurations.
Auto-scaling has been streamlined and email threats have been significantly reduced
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Features like Threat Extraction and Threat Emulation in Check Point CloudGuard Network Security are the most useful features for us.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has reduced our threat landscape to a great extent and is performing excellently when it comes to finding risks in external email attachments, which is the major benefit for us.
What needs improvement?
There is nothing where I have come to a roadblock where I think that a particular feature is missing. There is no feature that I think is missing.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for the last six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Integrating Check Point CloudGuard Network Security with a different solution works fine. Scalability is wonderful, and there are no concerns.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Integrating Check Point CloudGuard Network Security with a different solution works fine. Scalability is wonderful, and there are no concerns.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support by Check Point is good. I can rate it nine out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security was my first solution of this kind.
How was the initial setup?
The setup was straightforward. The documentation was pretty clear, and as I followed it, the process was simple.
Implementation of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security did not take much time. Implementation was planned for several weeks, but the planning took a bit of time. The actual technical work did not take much time.
What about the implementation team?
I implemented Check Point CloudGuard Network Security myself.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing does not fall under my responsibilities as I am a technical person and do not focus on pricing.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I am not looking for any new solution.
What other advice do I have?
Check Point, being the global leader in providing network security, also provides Check Point appliances. The operating system itself is time-tested, and this time-tested software platform gives us confidence. The firmware, Gaia OS, has given us the confidence to go with Check Point.
We are four people using the product in our organization at the moment.
The product is quite quick, but when it comes to communication, there is some lack of communication regarding escalation and related matters.
I have given this product a review rating of ten out of ten.
Unified policy management has simplified operations and improved visibility across environments
What is our primary use case?
Our main use case for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is to provide a service to third-party organizations, as we are the vendor that implements firewall devices. Currently, we have implemented the network Check Point security firewall in many of our clients that is on-premises, but now we are exploring options for clients that are on cloud and we are trying to achieve the same level of security for the clients' machines that are on the cloud.
The main use case would be to use HTTPS inspection as well as a DLP feature that is provided in the Next Generation Firewall so that none of the traffic containing PII or PHI and personal HIPAA traffic does not get over the internet from our customers or from our end.
What is most valuable?
The best feature that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security provides is CDR, Content Disarm and Re-arm, where it inspects the files and then looks into the file, takes out the malicious code, reconstructs it and sends it to the user. Another valuable feature would be its Zero-phishing capabilities.
I have found the effectiveness of CDR and Zero-phishing features to be great, and we are even seeing it in our environment. We have not yet faced any phishing links in our organization as a result of the zero-phishing features of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has positively impacted our organization by making our cloud platform more secure. Traditional firewalls cannot be relied upon to protect everything, and the firewall ratings for AWS as well as cloud native firewalls are not that high. Having Check Point CloudGuard Network Security in the cloud has helped us secure our cloud platforms.
What needs improvement?
The only thing that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security lacks is that for VPN, you need to buy a different model. You need to be in the HA sort of things to establish the IPSec between another firewall or maybe another cloud vendor, and that is the only thing that bothers me about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have recently been using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is a stable product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The pay-as-you-go model is very good for its scalability feature.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support has been awesome, and they respond within fifteen to twenty minutes of opening the ticket. I would rate the customer support a ten out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not use any other solution prior to Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, as it is the first solution that we are testing.
How was the initial setup?
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been that the pricing is very competitive because of the bring your own license as well as pay-as-you-go model. We got the best pricing available.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment, and we are still in evaluation mode using a trial license. I believe that it will save our time because we can manage everything from a single platform.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We have not used any of the other products competing with Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. We are exploring it, and after this evaluation, we may think of exploring others.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Check Point CloudGuard Network Security around eight or nine out of ten.
We are currently using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security on public cloud on AWS. AWS is our cloud provider.
We did not purchase Check Point CloudGuard Network Security through the AWS Marketplace. We directly talked to the distributor and have been using a trial license for this.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security provides unified security management across hybrid clouds as well as on-premises, which makes everything easy because you can push policies and see everything across every Check Point Next Generation Firewall across your entire cloud and on-premises in a single management server. This helps tremendously and makes our job much easier to view logs, push policies, and manage everything.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has helped us reduce our organizational risk significantly, and I believe in Check Point strongly because it has only four critical CVEs from 2020 to 2025. We do not have to have a major upgrade every time compared to its competition, which has had more than fifteen to sixteen critical vulnerabilities from 2020 to 2025. This certainly proves that Check Point's secured firewall OS security is better than its competitors and it will provide the best security to its network.
I feel very comfortable using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security because I have been using Check Point on-premises as well. Migrating to Check Point CloudGuard Network Security feels similar to doing the migration on Check Point Next Generation Firewall on-premises.
I utilize Check Point CloudGuard Network Security alongside Check Point Infinity Playbooks to have some automated tailored solutions. For example, if a certain IP address has a request of multiple times, maybe fifteen times per second, then I block that traffic, saying that it is a DDoS. This is what I am testing right now and it is working perfectly.
If you are considering using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and do not want to compromise on security, then Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the only product you should look for.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Robust Cloud Security with Seamless Multi-Cloud Integration
What do you like best about the product?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is a strong, automatic threat prevention and fits easily with multi-cloud setup. It provides centralized management, scalability and compliance to secure cloud implementation.
What do you dislike about the product?
The configurations involved in check point cloud guard might be complicated to the teams that lack in-depth knowledge in cloud security. Its pricing model is also a little high when compared to small organizations or organizations with constrained budgets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It safeguards cloud environments by preventing sophisticated cyber adversaries and unauthorized access by means of automated and consolidated security regulations. This increases transparency, compliance and enhances the overall security of the cloud network.
Flexible Cloud Security with Scalable Licensing Options
What do you like best about the product?
Checkpoint Cloudguard Network Security supports both public as well as private cloud. It has different type of licensing BYOL which depends upon number of cores as well as pay as you go model and it will increase the capacity as the size grow.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is fully dependent upon cloud like AWS and Azure for whose we donot have any access to their infra. We will be vulnerable for the issue they face in their services like last time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves our need to increase the firewall capacity during our peak season due to its pay as you go licensing model. It also auto retrieves all the object from its Cloud manager once any object is created in the cloud.
Effortless Cloud Integration and Flexible Licensing
What do you like best about the product?
The most useful features about checkpoint is that how it fetches all the object from cloud when you create the datacenter. It has different licesing feature like BYOL which depends upon the number of core as well as elastic license which depend upon the volume of traffic passed.
What do you dislike about the product?
It mainly lies on cloud platform and it depends upon cloud to work without any disrution. Like the outage that happened on last time both for aws and azure, this would result in outage for other companies as well since the infra wont be accessible to anyone.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has improved the elasticity of our firewall as the traffic during season gets easily handled by the firewall and we do not have to worry about any drops in the packet and firewall not handling it.
Robust Security and Seamless CI/CD Automation with Cloudguard
What do you like best about the product?
What I like about Checkpoint Cloudguard is that it provides the features of firewall like efficacy against malware, ransomware and zero day attacks. It also provides seamless CI/CD automation with cloud native tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its pricing is little bit costlier and it is only as Saas based solution where the edge location is not present in most of the country which can result in increased latency.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has helped to secure our application in without need of more capital for on prem WAF solution.
Has improved threat response and reduced cloud-related alerts through automated security policies
What is our primary use case?
Our main use case for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is protecting our cloud infrastructure from advanced threats while maintaining consistent security policies across hybrid environments; we rely on it most for perimeter defense, traffic inspection, and automated threat prevention.
What is most valuable?
The advanced threat prevention feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security stands out the most to me. The threat prevention feature in Check Point CloudGuard is highly effective because it blocks attacks before they reach cloud workloads, using real-time intelligence and automated controls; one standout scenario for us was stopping a zero-day exploit targeting a misconfigured API, which CloudGuard detected and blocked instantly, preventing lateral movement.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security integrates natively in Azure, allowing security policies to follow workloads as they scale or move, and it also supports infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation for security.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has had a strong positive impact on our organization across several dimensions, especially in security posture, operational efficiency, and cloud agility. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has significantly reduced our organizational risk, particularly in cloud environments, with a measurable drop in misconfiguration, threat exposure, and incident response time, contributing to an estimated 30 or 40% reduction in overall cloud-related risk.
What needs improvement?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security could be improved by enhancing its user interface, simplifying policy management, and expanding third-party integrations. The documentation has a learning curve, which can be dense and sometimes outdated. At first, I needed to learn different documentations, but now it is easier. More interactive guides, real-world examples, and clearer walkthroughs would help new users get up to speed faster.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for around two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security's customer support is very good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What was our ROI?
I have saved time due to Check Point CloudGuard Network Security.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is very good in Azure for me.
What other advice do I have?
Since implementing Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, my confidence in moving workloads to the cloud has remained the same. I recommend Check Point CloudGuard Network Security because it is better for its security. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Check Point CloudGuard Network Security an eight.
CloudGuard: My First Line of Defense
What do you like best about the product?
The way CloudGuard handles cloud traffic feels effortless. I don’t have to constantly tweak settings or chase down alerts it just works in the background, keeping everything secure.
The integration with different cloud platforms is smooth, and I get the visibility I need without digging through endless dashboards.
The integration with different cloud platforms is smooth, and I get the visibility I need without digging through endless dashboards.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing that could be improved is the initial setup it’s not exactly plug and play.
If you’re not familiar with cloud architectures or Check Point’s ecosystem, getting everything configured can take some time.
Once it’s running, it’s solid, but that onboarding curve might be steep for smaller teams or those new to cloud security.
If you’re not familiar with cloud architectures or Check Point’s ecosystem, getting everything configured can take some time.
Once it’s running, it’s solid, but that onboarding curve might be steep for smaller teams or those new to cloud security.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CloudGuard helps me stay ahead of cloud threats without having to be a cloud security expert.
Before, I was constantly worried about misconfigurations or missing something critical.
Now, it handles the heavy lifting monitoring traffic, spotting risks, and keeping things locked down.
It’s like having a quiet guardian that watches over my cloud setup while I focus on everything else.
Before, I was constantly worried about misconfigurations or missing something critical.
Now, it handles the heavy lifting monitoring traffic, spotting risks, and keeping things locked down.
It’s like having a quiet guardian that watches over my cloud setup while I focus on everything else.
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